this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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[–] charolastra@programming.dev 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That rope is about a foot off the ground; I'm struggling to work out how he managed NOT to clear it!

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 70 points 1 year ago

The same alcohol that gave him the courage, gave him the fall.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

He jumped too late, and so his toes caught, while still rising. It then spun him into the ground. Moving ropes can screw up your instincts to jump them, unless you pay proper attention (and over jump).

[–] NSFGiraffe@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 1 year ago

Notice that he didn't make any effort to catch himself. This isn't a person that normally does things like this or the crash wouldn't have been a solid faceplant.

Most people can't jump for shit.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

He did the motions of a jump but with the 6" of height he got he might as well have just run straight into it.

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

The rope looks like it is oscillating up/down. If you position your jump on the "down" oscillation, you're gonna have a bad time.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oof. Not sure which hurt more, the face plant or the embarrassment.

[–] migratory_bird@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely the embarrassment

[–] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago
[–] Tautvydaxx@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Klaipėda, Lithuania. Great city to come for a day of tourism, close to Nida, best place to stay a week on a hot summer.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

what did the bridge say to the face? SLAP

[–] braintrust2k@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

bridge-slap

[–] TWG@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I was expecting it to be a boat that was impatient and rammed the bridge

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

If the crime is petty enough and you hurt yourself bad enough, you can get away with it think-about-it

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I did very similar as a pre teen at a weekend school thing where I was running and tried to jump over a bench that was attached to a pole, I'd don't it several times, I miscalculated and slammed my shen into the front of it and ate shit.

It was right in front of an older guy I respected too, I felt so embarrassed and my knee hurt for fucking days.

Don't remember how bad my knee was exactly, but remember the shame

[–] elxeno@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

~~Fall~~ emotional damage!

[–] crime@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

My cousin broke his skull doing something like that, he's never lived it down but at least there wasn't any CCTV of it

Well guess he learnt a valuable less... Ah who am I kidding, fuck yeah, Crack that skull!

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This bridge deck clearly needs more traction, why is the old guy operating a switch slipping around also?

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Magrath@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think he's slipping. I think the switch was pulling him.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huh? He was fighting the bridges inertia

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

You best get on to them and tell them what's what

[–] mawkishdave@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I hope that was more painful than it looks.